So yes, it finally came on the 24th of September, my birthday. Here's the spec for those who are interested:

Windows Vista 64-bit Version (needed to run 4GB RAM)

Intel Core 2 Quad (4x 2.4GHz)

4GB RAM

ATI Radeon 4870 512MB Dx10.1 Video Card

250GB HDD

20x DVD+CD/RW

There's all the important stuff anyhoo.

So, as you can tell if you know a little about PC specs, that's a pretty darn decent computer. So here's a review of the machine, and the website I purchased it off...I'll try not to be too biased:

I found this site in an advertisement in a Total PC Gamer magazine I picked up in the airport for the plane. Naturally I was intriigued by their low prices, but classy advertising (there were so many adverts in that magazine for PCs but they all looked so cheap and untrustworthy) so looked them up the day I got home. I was pleasently suprised to find that I could get a far better PC than I could on DELL for a much lower price. This is the thing with places like DELL; they charge ridiculous prices for stuff that comes "free" that you don't want, let alone need, and then they charge even more for the fact they have to build it. In comparison, you'd have to shop around a fair bit and build you own PC from scratch to get the same spec as my PC for under £700 - and that just shows that pcspecialist sells at component prices and adds very little on for labour and the like.

Sadly though, the delivery times are rather long, unless you're wiling to spend an extra £60 on speedy delivery. It can take 7 to 10 days to build the machine (God knows they must be understaffed - you should be able to build a computer in a few hours) and then 5 to 7 days for delivery. Quite nicely though, at least they send emails informing you of every milestone they reach in the PC's construction and delivery. 

Firstly, I didn't splash out on a fancy case so the PC hardly looks remarkable. It does however, look fairly nice with an aluminium grill over the front, steel case and blue LED power light. 

Let's get on to what actually matters though shall we?

In terms of everyday tasks the 4GB RAM and Quad Core processor hardly gets to show off, though in comparison to my old 512MB RAM and single-core processor to me it feels like the speed of sound. It took me fifteen minutes to copy around 500 songs from my old computer onto my memory stick, in comparison it took about 2 minutes to copy those files from the stick to the new PC. When idle, the PC is quite noticibly loud, but that's just the Radeon 4870 for you so there's not much I can do about that. It's good to know that the noise of the fan isn't for nothing though, because the air coming out of the vent at the side is always cool.

When gaming, the PC rarely gets very louder which is nice, because I've heard reports of high end graphics cards being quite loud during games. 

Games run remarkabley fast on this system. If you take into account that a 360 will very rarely run a game faster than 60fps (frames-per-second) and will run more hardware intensive games at 20 to 30fps you can appreciate how fast this machine is. I can run the Source Engine (Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source etc.) at an average of 100fps with settings maxed out. Also, I can run the strategy game World in Conflict, a DirectX 10 game, at highest settings at an average of 50fps.

The computer can sometimes get quite a bit hotter when gaming but only on one particular game...yes you guessed it - Crysis. However, although the computer gets a bit hotter, it's for good use though as I'm running the mess that is Crysis with all settings on "high" at never less that 20fps, with an average of 30-40fps. 

The only draw back to this PC is the operation system. No, don't get me wrong - I have no problem with VIsta, in fact I think it's great. I just have a problem with 64-bit Vista that I have to have to use my 4GB RAM. It's just so very unstable, games will often randomly crash - and not while doing something hardware intensive either...just really really randomly. 

A small set back though, and it must be said I'm loving this computer like a brother. Yeah you heard me Joe - I don't need you anymore!...jokez.

Expect a review of Crysis, lot's of random Garry's Mod pictures and a review of the Source Engine mod, Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat very soon.